Time Schedule:
Jaisri Lingappa
PABIO 590
Seattle Campus
Individual offerings focusing on topics such as pathogenesis, immunology, virology, disease agents, bioinformatics and grant writing. Small lecture format. Credit/no-credit only. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Class description
The 2012 minicourse entitled "Scientific Writing" is designed to teach Pathobiology graduate students guidelines for writing well, and to give them experience in writing the key "missing" sections of a research article (abstract, introduction, results, and discussion). This course will be offered as a 3 week minicourse from April 2, 2012 to April 20, 2012. Class will meet from 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM, on M, W, F (9 classes) in the UW Health Science Building in T360.
Student learning goals
Students will learn rules for writing clearly and effectively.
Students will gain experience with writing sections of a scientific paper.
Students will gain experience revising someone else's writing.
Students will learn how to critique and improve their writing.
General method of instruction
There will be 4 lectures on aspects of scientific writing and 5 discussion sessions in which assignments will be critiqued and discussed. It is expected that enrolled students will attend all classes. A tentative syllabus will be available on the website by March 27th, 2012.
Recommended preparation
Students should be graduate students currently enrolled in either the Pathobiology, MCB, or Microbiology graduate program. Preference will be given to Pathobiology students in years 2, 3, and 4.
Class assignments and grading
Assignments will involve writing "missing sections" of papers, which will then be discussed in class. Assignment deadlines must not be missed.
This course is a credit/no credit course. Credit will be given if all assignments are completed by the due date.
